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Cooks Illustrated - Video - Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories - Sierpinski Cookies. A few months ago we showed you how to make beautiful fractals in polymer clay. Take that idea, run with it, and where do you end up? In the kitchen, making Sierpinski cookies! These cookies, made from contrasting colors of butter cookie dough, are a tasty realization of the Sierpinski carpet, producing lovely, edible fractals.

As with our earlier project involving clay, you can make these by using a simple iterative algorithmic process of stretching out the dough and folding it over onto itself in a specific pattern. For choice of materials, we found the pixel cookies on Instructables to be inspiring. ( You can, of course, make a representation of a fractal using pixels, like these Sierpinski triangles. Our method starts with an initial pattern. The pixel cookie advice to use the butter cookie recipe from Cook’s Illustrated is excellent (they even posted the recipe).

To make a batch of chocolate dough, reduce the flour by 1/4 cup and substitute 1/4 cup of cocoa powder. Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories - One Hundred Percent EDIBLE Goo. After more than a year of painstaking directed research by our Experimental Foods Division, we have finally achieved one of our most important longstanding goals: the production of edible googly eyes. Like many other great inventions, it seems almost simple in retrospect, but in this write up we walk through the process and show you how to make your own. To begin with, we need a food-grade rigid transparent dome that will form the outer visual shell of the googly eyes. Empty gelatin capsules like these slide apart easily and come with one such dome on each end. You can get capsules like these in bulk at all kinds of “natural” and “health food” stores– or even at many grocery stores in the section where dietary supplements are sold.

There is of course a huge selection online– you can even get them in different colors and flavors. Note: Vegetarians will observe that gelatin is an animal product. The finished transparent domes, cut down to size. Our substrate of choice is (are?) Winnica Golesz - uprawa i reprodukcja odpornych odmian winorosli. DIY : Eggstractor - The World's Biggest Show & Tell - t.

Portable Gas Stove. Figure Out What's for Dinner with Snacksby - AppScout. If you're like me, you spend way too much money on takeout because you don't know what to make with the ingredients you have at home, even with a fully stocked pantry. Snacksby can help. The service is a community-powered recipe-sharing site; you can search by ingredient or keyword, and there's a convenient widget on the front page to help you find recipes in the site's database using only the ingredients you enter.

In other words, type in what you have in your pantry, and Snacksby will return recipes using those ingredients. Sometimes I stand in front of my fridge after grocery shopping and realize I have nothing to eat. It's not because the fridge isn't full; it's because I bought a lot of base ingredients and just can't think of what to make with them. At Snacksby, I can type in the ingredients I want to use or have in my pantry, and the search widget will run through the recipes submitted to the site by members to see if it can find anything that matches the ingredients I typed in.

Carbonating: The Cheap and Easy Way - Instructables. Have you ever wanted to make your own carbonated beverages such as soda and carbonated water? Well, I have. However, after doing a lot of research I realized that the carbonation machines you can buy cost hundreds of dollars. But then I found this way of doing it. It costs very little and can be made with stuff found around the house. WARNING: BE CAREFUL! Sorry about the crappy video. See The Video Here. Best Life Magazine: Health & Fitness: Eat these eight foods. Euro * Food - A'lacarte ételrendelés.

Roasted Hot Pepper Sauce (original recipe) Scotch Single Malt, Whisky Producing Regions in Scotland - The W. All recipes – complete resource for recipes and cooking tips. How to Make OpenCola - WikiHow. Steps Part 1 of 4: Making The Flavoring 1Mix the oils together.Ad 2Add gum arabic and mix.3Add water and mix well. For this step, use a hand mixer or blender to mix thoroughly. The flavoring can be made in advance and stored for use later.

Part 2 of 4: Making The Acid Solution from Powder You can make a larger batch for future use or just what is needed, either way you want 75% of the total weight to be the powder and 25% water. 1Measure 13 grams of the acid powder and place in a small glass jar.2Boil a small amount of water (you can microwave 10-20 ml water for about a minute)3Add 4.5 ml of hot water to the powdered acid (enough to bring the total weight up to 17.5 g).4Swirl the solution carefully until the powder is dissolved. Part 3 of 4: Making The Concentrate Part 4 of 4: Making The Soda 1Mix 1 part concentrate with five parts water.

Tips Ad Warnings Gum arabic is available in two forms: art grade and food grade. Universal Nut Sheller. ZAUBERSTAB - CAPITAL HOME KFT. World Wide Recipes Conversion and Ingredient Information. Oven TemperaturesAmerican Liquid MeasuresAmerican Can SizesBritish Liquid MeasuresInternational Liquid MeasurementsBritish Short CutsSome Australian ConversionsMetric SpoonsWeightChinese CattiesChocolatesDairy ProductsFatsFloursLeavening AgentsStarchesSugar and Other Sweeteners Standard Conversion Tables Oven TemperaturesAn approximate conversion chart Top of page American Liquid Measures 1 gallon = 4 quarts = 3.79 L (Can usually be rounded to 4 L)1 quart = 2 pints = 0.95 L (Can usually be rounded to 1 L)1 pint = 2 cups = 16 fl oz = 450 ml (Can usually be rounded to 500 ml)1 cup = 8 fl oz = 225 ml (Can usually be rounded to 250 ml)1 tablespoon = 1/2 fl oz = 16 ml (Can usually be rounded to 15 ml)1 teaspoon = 1/3 tablespoon = 5 ml American Can Sizes British Liquid Measures 1 UK pint is about 6 dl1 UK liquid oz is 0.96 US liquid oz. 1 pint = 570 ml = 20 fl oz1 breakfast cup = 10 fl oz = 1/2 pint1 tea cup = 1/3 pint1 tablespoon = 15 ml1 dessertspoon = 10 ml1 teaspoon = 5 ml = 1/3 tablespoon Weight.